Machines Like Us

    Machines Like Us is a technology show about people. We are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in artificial intelligence. Technologies that were once the realm of science fiction will become our reality: robot best friends, bespoke gene editing, brain implants that make us smarter. Every other Tuesday Taylor Owen sits down with the people shaping this rapidly approaching future. He’ll speak with entrepreneurs building world-changing technologies, lawmakers trying to ensure they’re safe, and journalists and scholars working to understand how they’re transforming our lives.

  • How Silicon Valley Monopolized Our Imagination

  • Margrethe Vestager Fought Big Tech and Won. Her Next Target is AI

  • Bonus ‘Lately’: The Great Decline of Everything Online

  • Musk, Money and Misinformation: Tech & The U.S. Election

  • Emily St. John Mandel Imagines The Future

  • Yoshua Bengio Doesn’t Think We’re Ready for Superhuman AI. We’re Building it Anyway.

  • There’s a Way to Cool the Planet. Scientists are Terrified of It.

  • Gaza is a Window into the Future of War

  • Why Journalism Made a Devil’s Bargain with Big Tech

  • How to Hack Democracy

  • How AI Turbocharged the Economy (For Now)

  • Douglas Rushkoff Doesn’t Want to Talk About AI

  • The Real World Cost of AI

  • Can AI Bring Humanity Back to Health Care?

  • The Battle for Your Brain

  • Can AI Companions Cure Loneliness?

  • Maria Ressa saw the dangers of social media. AI might be worse.

  • Introducing Machines Like Us

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